Bible Time

What is worship? Is music worship? Is music moral or a-moral? If there is "good and bad" music, how do I tell the difference. Though this short 1 hour message is not nearly long enough to dig into this subject, we pray that God will use this message to challenge your thinking regarding music, and worship, and to point you to true worship of Christ, who alone is worthy of our adoration and praise! We pray this in Jesus Christ's precious and holy name, amen!Free dissemination of all broadcasts in their unedited entirety is encouraged!See About page for more details and permissions© Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved

The Blessed hope, the rapture of the bride of Christ, is the topic of 2 Thessalonians 2:1, and it is our focus in this Bible Time! May God give you comfort, and hope, and illumination as you listen to the word of God preached, in Jesus name, AMEN!Free dissemination of all broadcasts in their unedited entirety is encouraged! See About page for more details and permissions© Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved

Welcome back to Bible Time! 2 Thessalonians 1:12 "That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ."May the name of Jesus Christ be lifted up high and holy today among His people! Call on the NAME of the Lord and thou shalt be saved! Praise God for the Name that is above every name!Free dissemination of all broadcasts in their unedited entirety is encouraged! See About page for more details and permissions© Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved

If Christ came back today, would you truly be rejoicing? Or is there sin in your heart undealt with that would dampen your joy to see your Saviour face to face? Let us live today as if its the only day we have to live for our Lord and Master! May you be encouraged and blessed!Free dissemination of all broadcasts in their unedited entirety is encouraged! See About page for more details and permissions© Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved

Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour! Coming back in glory and might to conquer His enemies the final time! Praise His holy name!

This scripture is beyond our ability to comprehend, and terrible in it's depth of truth. Everlasting destruction is promised to those who obey not the gospel! Separation from his presence and glory! May God use this message to warn the wicked, and give zeal to the saved, in Jesus name! Free dissemination of all broadcasts in their unedited entirety is encouraged! See About page for more details and permissions© Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved

Is the thought of Christ in flaming fire disturbing to you? It ought to be! Yet the Bible uses this description for Christ! May God open our eyes to the truth of who Christ really is, and quicken our burden for the lost! If you are not sure you are saved, please listen carefully, and take heed to these warnings, in Jesus name!Free dissemination of all broadcasts in their unedited entirety is encouraged! See About page for more details and permissions© Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved

Are you troubled by this world because of your stand for Christ, and the word of God? Look to Jesus' coming! Rest is on the horizon for the true follower of Christ! May God bless your heart with joy in peace in believing as the scriptures are preached, in Jesus name!"Free dissemination of all broadcasts in their unedited entirety is encouraged! See About page for more details and permissions© Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved

Righteousness is maligned and mis-defined in our generation, but in the Bible it is the perfect outworking of holiness. The result of a pure and perfect heart. As we look at righteousness in the Bible, the gap between our righteousness and God's seems to grow wider, and the reality of what God calls righteous clearly defies what we have been generally taught! May God open our eyes to HIS righteousness, and break our self-righteousness with this message, in Jesus name! Free dissemination of all broadcasts in their unedited entirety is encouraged! See About page for more details and permissions© Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved

So many churches have fallen out, broken by sin! Others join associations in the hopes of unity and instead compromise unity with God for unity with man. Still others grit their teeth and stand alone, thrusting all others away, and end in lonely misery, enduring to the end. But what fellowship, what joy, what glory is to be had in the churches when we lay down our axes and pick up the sword of the Spirit, the Word of God, and enter the battle side by side! May God revive his churches, and bring the glory that only comes through victorious battle against the devil back to his churches, in Jesus name, AMEN!Free dissemination of all broadcasts in their unedited entirety is encouraged! See About page for more details and permissions© Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved

Oh God send the fire! Do we know what we are saying? Do we understand what it costs? So often we do not! But without the fire, we will accomplish nothing for God! Oh that God would kindle a fire in our hearts, our homes, and our "Houses of God", and burn away the wood, hay, and stubble, and bring forth the gold to his glory, in Jesus name! Free dissemination of all broadcasts in their unedited entirety is encouraged! See About page for more details and permissions© Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved

What gave validation to the church at Thessalonica? What is the evidence of true salvation, and a true church? Here in our text, God gives us key evidence with which to discern the true from the false. May God open our understanding, and give us discernment.Free dissemination of all broadcasts in their unedited entirety is encouraged! See About page for more details and permissions© Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved

Grace, by which we are saved produces peace, by which we rest in Christ! This rest is not lethargic or apathetic, but a rest that labors and suffers for Christ, unshaken by tribulation and trial. This is the nature of true salvation, and the gospel of Jesus Christ! May God grant you grace and peace through his word as you listen to this message, in Jesus name! Free dissemination of all broadcasts in their unedited entirety is encouraged! See About page for more details and permissions© Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved

Decisions made today are the foundation stones of your tomorrow. What will you be in a year, or five years, or twenty? Come, let us reason together from the word of God, and consider our ways. The future is the result of thousands of little decisions made today... what will your tomorrow look like? May Jesus Christ be glorified, and may he turn our hearts to follow hard after him through this message, in Jesus own holy name, Amen! Copyright is only to keep the recording from being chopped up. Free dissemination of all broadcasts in their unedited entirety is encouraged! See About page for more details and permissions© Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved

As the church at Thessalonica began, so it continued. The start of both epistles is almost exactly identical, and this consistency is no accident! Join us today as we search the scriptures for understanding of what it is to be "In Christ", and the necessity of the scriptural doctrine of Christ! May God bless with and fill you with joy and peace in believing, in Jesus name! Copyright is only to keep the recording from being chopped up. Free dissemination of all broadcasts in their unedited entirety is encouraged! See About page for more details and permissions© Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved

Amazing grace, how sweet the sound... We sing of grace, we speak of grace, but may God make his GRACE more real to us than ever, and may he use this message for his glory, in Jesus name! Copyright is only to keep the recording from being chopped up. Free dissemination of all broadcasts in their unedited entirety is encouraged! See About page for more details and permissions© Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved

God through Paul the apostle is charging his obedient, Bible believing church to READ THE BIBLE! Today by God's grace we will look at many scriptures dealing with the inspiration, preservation, and availability of God's Holy Book! What a miracle, that divine living words would be preserved in ink on perishable paper! May God strengthen your faith in THE BOOK, the Word of the living God that we have in our English tongue as the King James Bible, also known as the Authorized Version, in Jesus name!Copyright is only to keep the recording from being chopped up. Free dissemination of all broadcasts in their unedited entirety is encouraged! See About page for more details and permissions© Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved

What is a holy kiss? How do you do it? Who should we kiss? Why is this in the Bible? With God's help we will dive into this text, with a heart to obey, asking God to illuminate our understanding and help us rightly divide the Word of Truth! May God grant our request in Jesus name!Copyright is only to keep the recording from being chopped up. Free dissemination of all broadcasts in their unedited entirety is encouraged! See About page for more details and permissions© Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved

There are three areas of calling for the Christian. The first and the most important is the call of God to salvation. The second is the call of God to sanctification, and thirdly, the call of God to service. Today, by God's grace we will examine the call of God in the scripture, and how God expects us to react. May God open your understand and give you illumination of his word as we preach today, in Jesus name! © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

As we looked at Paul's inspired appeal to the church of Thessalonica for prayer, a burden grew on the preacher to call the remnant in America, and the true church around the world to pray for the United States of America, and for this ministry, and the church it is out of. May God burden his church around the word to pray for us, and may he answer with power, in Jesus name! Copyright is only to keep the recording from being chopped up. Free dissemination of all broadcasts in their unedited entirety is encouraged! See About page for more details and permissions© Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved

Wholly means totally... so is this verse talking about total sanctification, or sinless perfection? What does it mean to be sanctified? Is sanctification a process, a position, or a practical reality? Next to salvation, the doctrine of sanctification is the most important New Testament doctrine. Often misunderstood and maligned, many shy away from the word altogether. May this message bring understanding and light through the word of God, and may we live it, in Jesus name! © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

When sin is involved, RUN AWAY! God commands us to not only abstain from the sins themselves, but the outworking of sin, and involvement in things that look like sin! You have a choice to make, like Moses in Heb 11:24 - The world, sin, and pleasures of sin, or Christ, and the reproach that comes with following him. May God grant you the grace and power to choose Christ, and follow Christ, in Jesus name, amen. © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

God gives us here in 1 Thessalonians another simple command, that is overlooked and ignored by the vast majority of professing Christians. This command is grievous to the phony professor of religion, but vital reality for the true follower of Christ. May God stir up your heart to obey this command, renewing zeal where it has faded, and convicting hearts that are in rebellion, in Jesus Christ's own precious name, Amen. © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

This simple command is almost immediately buried in misconceptions, and factional man-made doctrinal positions, so that the message is lost before it can be comprehended. All across our land, disobedience to this simple command can be linked to all manner of trouble in churches and homes, and we don't even understand that we are disobeying! May God open our eyes and teach us from his word, in Jesus name, and for his gospel's sake, amen!© Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

A difficult topic, not because it's difficult to understand, but because we are so very in danger across this land of committing this great sin - Individually, locally in the churches, and nationally. May God open our eyes to the danger at hand, and help us to take warning, and repent, before God moves his presence off of us, and turns us over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, in Jesus holy and righteous name! © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

When God blesses, we are too busy to stop and say thank you. When God maintains our everyday existence, we overlook it, and fail to say thank you. When God send evil occurrence, and bad things happen, we fuss and fight, and the last thing we would consider doing is to thank God. May God open our understanding, convict our hearts, and give us power to be transformed by the renewing of our minds through obedience to the Word of God today, in Jesus name! Beware the sin of unthankfulness! © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

This command from God IS possible, IS powerful, and IS productive! Prayer is the vital connection between the believer and God! As important to the new man, as breathing air is to the old man, prayer is the life breath of the Born again Christian! May God grant us power and desire to obey this command, and be a people of PRAYER, in Jesus Christ's precious and holy name, AMEN!© Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

REJOICING IS NOT CONTINGENT UPON CIRCUMSTANCES, BUT RATHER UPON WHO GOD IS! This simple command, so often overlooked, is a powerful reality of the victorious life of the born again believer. May God rejoice your heart as we preach this message, and may God grant you power to rejoice evermore, in Jesus name! © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

As simple and straightforward as this command is in our text, we as depraved human beings have made it quite complicated to understand. The Bible means what it says, but what does it really say about dealing with evil? With God's help we will consider this command in the light of scripture today. May God bless you with understanding and an obedient heart to the word of God, in Jesus name! © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

To be unruly means to be un-governed, disobedient, and without rule. It means to be unwilling to be brought under the rule of another, and to submit to authority. In this message we will look at 3 great laws that govern all "Christianity", and which we must submit too, or fall into error. May God use this message to warn them that are unruly, and establish the hearts of his people in faith, in Jesus name!© Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

Sounds like a pastoral message doesn't it? But it's not... this commandment is given to the brethren! How different would church be if just obeyed the Bible we say we believe? May God grant us repentant and obedient hearts, and the power and desire to obey his word in this are, in Jesus Christ's precious name, amen! © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

Disobedience to this commandment has set in motion a cause and effect sequence of consequences that have resulted in the desolation of the American Churches. Church after church is closing it's doors, while new Baalistic worship centers are built in their place, and false teachers fill the platforms across our land. May God grant us repentance and obedience to this simple command, and restore our churches, in Jesus name! © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

Welcome back to Bible time! God's ways are not our ways! While we often consider ourselves the center of church life, expecting the "staff" to cater to us, counsel us, serve us, and comfort us, God has other plans! Today we will look at church leadership in the Bible, and our responsibility to those leaders. May God give us submissive hearts to follow his Word, and his ways, in Jesus Christ's name that is above all names!© Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

How can these three things go together? Only when the scriptures are rightly divided, can comfort, edification, and end times harmonize! May God give you faith to see and believe the clear truths of scripture regarding the the end times, that you might be comforted and edified, in Jesus name, and for his gospel's sake, amen! © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

All Praise to Christ, who died for us! What greater subject can their be to captivate or minds? What greater purpose can their be than to live for him who died for me? May God turn our hearts toward himself, and open our eyes to see Christ more clearly: May He grant us the fullness of his Holy Spirit to follow Christ, and subdue our bodies to his glorious purpose, in Jesus Christ's precious and holy name!© Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

This passage is the climax of God's teaching on end times through his holy apostle Paul in the book of 1st Thessalonians. This incredible statement of the sovereign grace of God by which he has decreed for his children life, instead of death, is too great to grasp! May God grant understanding and comfort for his children through his word, and may the truth of God's great wrath strike fear in the hearts of those that despise him, in Jesus name, and for his own sake, amen! © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

God through the apostle Paul continues to set a contrast between the children of wrath and the children of the day. Here the seemingly insignificant charge to be sober comes to the forefront... seemingly insignificant because perhaps we don't understand the Biblical use of the word sober... May God grant us the understanding, desire, and power to obey this scripture in Jesus name! © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

Are you asleep or drunk? These two conditions are ascribed to the children of the night, as a direct contrast to the actions and conditions of the children of the light and of the day. Will you let God judge your heart and your spiritually condition through his word? May God grant us repentance in this day of dead religion, in Jesus name.© Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

How does sleep effect my spiritual life? What does it mean to not sleep? God knows we need sleep! Jesus slept as a man... In this message we will look at the Biblical principal of godly sleep, and the great battle over your sleep. May God wake up his church to the need to watch and pray, in Jesus name!© Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

Are you a child of the light? Or of the darkness? What is the difference? How can you tell them apart? May God allow the glorious light of his gospel to shine through this simple attempt to preach his word, in Jesus holy, and precious name!© Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

How do the 3 parables of Matthew 23 illustrate the contrast between children of the light and of the darkness? How do these parables play into understanding the end times? May God open our understanding as we pick up where we left off in "Not In Darkness, Not Overtaken". Help us Lord, to be humble, and to understand, in Jesus name! © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

Ye are not in darkness... IF you have the Light! The Light of the world is Jesus, and if you have the Light, that day will not overtake you as a thief! Hallelujah! May God open our understanding through the study of his word, and power of his Holy Spirit, in Jesus precious and holy name, AMEN!© Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

God gives us a blessed contrast in this verse: A contrast of hope and despair; of truth and lies; of wrath and salvation. May God bless your heart wit comfort through this message... if you are truly his! For you rebels against God, may God grant you repentance before it's too late, in Jesus name! © Copyright 2023 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

God wants you to know what is going to happen! You can trust your AV King James Bible! Just read it and believe it! In this message we are exploring the day of the Lord in the word of God, but there is not enough time to hardly scratch the surface of the subject! May God encourage your heart, and fill you with a desire to know read and know your Bible,in Jesus name!© Copyright 2022 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

God wants you to understand the times and seasons! God didn't make it complicated... the devil has done that! God wants you to know! May God use this message to dissolve doubts and give understanding through his word, and for the glory of his Son, and the edification of his church, in Jesus name! Mixed Up References Broken Down:1. License II Timothy 3:1...12,132. Legalism I Tim 4:1-33. Lusts II Tim 4:3, II 3:3...© Copyright 2022 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

How can end times prophecies bring comfort? Only if they are considered biblically! As strange as it may seem, this verse is the key to understanding end times prophecies, the book of Revelation, the coming of the Lord, and all other matters we might lump under the man made word of "Eschatology". May God bless you with understanding... and comfort through these words, in Jesus name! © Copyright 2022 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

Hallelujah to the Lamb of God whose Bride awaits the joyous consummation of his covenant, made with his blood! In this message we will look at the catching away, sometimes called the "Rapture" of the church. May God bless you with comfort, and hope, in Jesus name!© Copyright 2022 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

The blessed hope of the believer, the coming of Christ is set forth in plain speech by the Holy Ghost, and it is his will for you to understand, believe, and take comfort in this great truth! May God open our understanding and shed light on this passage as we compare scripture with scripture, in Jesus name! © Copyright 2022 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

What does the coming of Christ mean to you? Is eschatology an excercise in intellectual reasoning to you? Is it an interpretive dance through the allegorical mysts of dreams of spiritual men? Or, is the study of the end times, just part of your walk of faith - trusting God who said what he said, to do what he said? May God establish your heart in his word, and strengthen your faith through this message, in Jesus name! © Copyright 2022 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

IF we believe! What a statement! What a foundation for our faith! The gospel is here held forth as the corner stone of all spiritual comfort, all hope in affliction, all joyful assurance in the midst of grief and loss! May God bless your heart with fullness of assurance and faith in believing the gospel of Jesus Christ as we consider his death and resurrection today, in Jesus name! © Copyright 2022 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions

God wills us to have understanding and wisdom concerning the End Times. Here in verse 13 we begin a group of about 17 verses that deal with different aspects of the End Times. This first deals with the end of an individual believers time, and shows us the Biblical and blessed hope that we have in Christ Jesus! May God comfort your hearts, and establish you in the faith to stand in the coming afflictions and tribulations you will face, in Jesus name! © Copyright 2022 Joshua Burks All rights reserved See About page for more details and permissions